Gibson Jerome Haynes (born September 30, 1957) is an American musician, radio personality, painter, author and the lead singer of the band

Butthole Surfers Butthole Surfers are an American rock band formed in San Antonio, Texas, by singer Gibby Haynes and guitarist Paul Leary in 1981. The band has had numerous personnel changes, but its core lineup of Haynes, Leary, and drummer King Coffey has ...

Early life and career

Born and raised in

Dallas Dallas () is the third largest city in Texas and the largest city in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex, the fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 7.5 million people. It is the largest city in and seat of Dallas County ...

Texas Texas (, ; Spanish: ''Texas'', ''Tejas'') is a state in the South Central region of the United States. At 268,596 square miles (695,662 km2), and with more than 29.1 million residents in 2020, it is the second-largest U.S. state by ...

, Gibby Haynes is the son of actor

Jerry Haynes Jerome Martin "Jerry" Haynes (January 31, 1927 – September 26, 2011) was an American actor from Dallas, Texas. He is most well known as Mr. Peppermint, a role he played for 30 years as the host of one of the longest-running local children's show ...

, best known as Dallas-based children's TV host "

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", and Doris Haynes. His uncle was decorated U.S. Marines Corps major general

Fred E. Haynes Jr. Fred Elmore Haynes Jr. (January 5, 1921 – March 25, 2010) was a United States Marine Corps major general who served in World War II and the Vietnam War. He completed his Marine Corps career as deputy chief of staff for Research, Development a ...

Haynes attended Trinity University to study

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. After graduating, he went to work as an auditor for the accounting firm

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. In 1981, Haynes and Trinity classmate

Paul Leary Paul Leary Walthall (born May 7, 1957), known as Paul Leary, is an American musician and music producer from Austin, Texas, best known as the lead guitarist and occasional lead vocalist for the American rock band Butthole Surfers. He is also th ...

published the magazine ''Strange V.D.'', which featured photos of abnormal medical ailments, coupled with fictitious, humorous explanations for the diseases. After being caught with one of these pictures at work, Haynes left the accounting firm and moved to Southern California along with Leary. After a brief period spent selling homemade clothes and linens emblazoned with

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image, the pair returned to San Antonio and launched the band that would eventually become

, which was notorious for their elaborate stage shows and

psychedelic music Psychedelic music (sometimes called psychedelia) is a wide range of popular music styles and genres influenced by 1960s psychedelia, a subculture of people who used psychedelic drugs such as LSD, psilocybin mushrooms, mescaline, and cannabi ...

. Haynes would often fire a

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above the crowd during the Butthole Surfers live shows. Haynes played saxophone on several albums, including the band's debut LP '' Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac''. Haynes, along with Ministry frontman

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, lived with

Timothy Leary Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920 – May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and author known for his strong advocacy of psychedelic drugs. Evaluations of Leary are polarized, ranging from bold oracle to publicity hound. He was "a her ...

, and were used as guinea pigs for his psychedelic experiments. Haynes appeared with Ministry (recording the lead vocals on their song “ Jesus Built My Hotrod”) and the 2006 Revolting Cocks CD entitled ''

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''. Haynes has also fronted the band P with friend and actor

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. He also did guest vocals for

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and

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Eric Avery Eric Adam Avery (born April 25, 1965) is an American musician. He is best known as the founding bass guitarist and co-songwriter of the alternative rock band Jane's Addiction, with whom he has recorded two studio albums. He is also currently the ...

's short-lived post-

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band. Haynes’ solo project is called Gibby Haynes and His Problem. In 2009 he produced Varshons, a record of

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s by The Lemonheads featuring guest vocals from Liv Tyler and

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. Gibby Haynes also appeared as a guest vocalist on the song "Atlanta" by

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which was a limited edition release on 18 April 2015 to celebrate Record Store Day 2015. This song can also be found on Mastodon's 2020 album '' Medium Rarities.'' Also a painter, in spring of 2011 Haynes exhibited some of his water colors and drawings at the Recess Activities space in the Kidd Yellin Gallery, located in

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, founded by Charlotte Kidd and

Dustin Yellin Dustin Yellin (born July 22, 1975) is an American artist living in Brooklyn, New York. His work embeds "hundreds of little pictures, drawings and images clipped out of magazines, art books and the like" to form tableaux in miniature, whic ...

Work in film and television

In the mid-1980s, Haynes and the band interspliced footage from a raucous Detroit concert with pontifications on consciousness, mostly while lying together in a large bed, in the concert video Blind Eye Sees All. Haynes and

produced a mini-documentary about John Frusciante's life called ''

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''. In late 1992, Haynes appeared in

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's first long-form video, ''

Phallus in Wonderland ''Phallus in Wonderland'' is a film by American heavy metal band Gwar, their first attempt at a commercially released, long-form film. The video was nominated for a Grammy in 1993 (which they lost to Annie Lennox for ''Diva'', as mock-mentioned ...

'', as director Fritz Wang. Haynes appeared briefly in

Jim Jarmusch James Robert Jarmusch (; born January 22, 1953) is an American film director and screenwriter. He has been a major proponent of independent cinema since the 1980s, directing films including ''Stranger Than Paradise'' (1984), '' Down by Law'' (19 ...

's 1995 film ''

Dead Man ''Dead Man'' is a 1995 American acid western film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch. It stars Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Billy Bob Thornton, Iggy Pop, Crispin Glover, John Hurt, Michael Wincott, Lance Henriksen, Gabriel Byrne, Mili Avital, ...

'' as a man being fellated in an alley. He also has a very small cameo appearance in Gregg Araki's 1997 film '' Nowhere'' and the

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television show ''

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''. Additionally he appears as uncredited in ''

CB4 ''CB4'' is a 1993 American satirical comedy film directed by Tamra Davis and starring Chris Rock. The film follows a fictional rap group named "CB4", named after the prison block in which the group was allegedly formed (Cell Block 4). The movie ...

''.

References

External links

A collection of Haynes' artwork
as part of the ''Power Pathos'' (2006) show at the Station Museum of Contemporary Art - Houston, TX
They Came from Hollywood
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